I believe that AI, same as IoT will be eventually regulated and matured under international standards. EU-C already has several work groups working on the matter. Take MIDI for example (1982), where major music instrument manufacturers were eventually forced to work together in order to create a basic "language" understood and used by all kinds of musical instruments carrying some sort of a digital interface. AI and IoT systems might seem "private" and "monopolic" at the moment, but for macroeconomy's sake, which is based on faster, more accurate, and reliable transactions of information and micro-payments global industrial leaders will be "forced" to comply for their own sake. 

Very interesting experiment, sir, thank you for the posit.

Not only I am certain about the predictive possibilities underlying behind the complex processing mechanisms we're currently building, but I am convinced that this was the initial reason for why hundreds of billions are 'thrown' each year into analytics and hi-tech r&d programmes.

Unlike us, a machine can recall billions of memories or timestamps at the same time. That would allow a sophisticated pattern recognition to be formed. Of course, machines won't be fed with all our historical data (raw or processed) on the first attempt, but small experiments like the monitoring of a life-cycle of a plant could be a good start.

As the plant grows, at first it will spread a leaf on the left side, and then two leaves on the right side of the plant, and it will eventually grow to a point from where we could certainly predict its future behavior thanks to the concept of fractals, (which btw was the main reason we have the chance to even build supercomputers, not to mention use them), and Fibonacci or Fibonacci-like patterns. 

After a specific period, the plant repeats the process we saw in the beginning, and from the first confirmed loop and on, we have the ability to predict or even manipulate the way the specific plant should keep growing.

We may not understand all the data we carry, from ancient manuscripts to texts that make absolutely no sense to us (that's why we baptized them as "mythology" - not because they are fiction, but simply because we cannot compare or confirm any of the writings according to the current state of what we refer to as "Real life".) But, sophisticated AI systems could easily make their own sense out of it, find patterns, loops, and other checkpoints in our own timeline we might have skipped. Ancient Greek philosophers may be difficult to understand, but what if understanding them is not the point?

I believe that future AI systems will manage to read, analyze, and organize data so fast, with such an efficiency that we will be able to start seeing the first loops in our own tiny universe (if it didn't happen already and we're just not aware of it at the moment), as the respective AI will experience the full process the same way we experience the growth of a plant. 

Millions of years of movements, thousands of years of monitoring and recording, hundreds of years of preparation for the next level of self-sustainable processors, and last a couple decades of top-grade analysis will give us the answers we've been looking for some thousands of years already.

Gianbattista Vico in his book La Scienza Nuova, accurately states that history is based on words we invented and used during the time we attempted to explain history. These words would make absolutely no sense to us nowadays and vise versa. Some might say he is too much of a constructivist, but logically he would make much more sense than those certain about a man with a beard behind the clouds invented everything. 

In ancient Greece, there are concepts and words like "Oracles", which we consider to be "mythological" creations, or concepts that don't even exist, even if for some unknown reason we keep carrying this information for thousands or in some cases tens of thousands of years.

An oracle won't make sense to us, but what if it does sense to a machine?

In ancient Greece, there was Delphi, a spiritual place usually visited by kings and leaders of the era, seeking for advice and even accurate predictions of what's to come. We find it silly that a man would talk to a wall seeking assistance, while we find it completely normal talking to IBM's Watson, seeking for assistance. That is funny at best, if not a shame since it is the most powerful limiter of our comprehensive abilities.

I am looking forward to seeing next-generation AI systems, decentralized intelligence, and autonomous e-governments at work, and I have high hopes when it comes to possible breakthroughs carried out by AI systems, some of which we would never even had conceived, to begin with.